(Three credit hours, three lecture hours per week during a 16-week semester, no lab hours)

* Catalog description: A first course in statistics for students in business; nursing; allied health; or the social, physical, or behavioral sciences; or for any student requiring knowledge of the fundamental procedures for data organization and analysis. Topics include frequency
distributions, graphing, measures of location and variation, the binomial and normal distributions, z-scores, t-test, chi-square test, F-test, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression, and correlation. Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test. A second option is an appropriate secondary school course (Algebra II) and completion of any TASP-mandated mathematics remediation. (MTH 1563)

* Inferential Statistics: Some summaries of statistics courses use the phrases "descriptive statistics" and "inferential statistics". MATH 1342 includes both descriptive and inferential statistics. We cover the standard inferential statistics topics usually taught in a beginning course, including the usual confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for means, proportions, and regression models.

* Prerequisite Review Sheets

* Departmental First-Day Handout (The web course is structured a bit differently than the in-class course and uses some additional materials.)

* Important information about the text: The text has a CD in the back. Do not open that until you are sure that you will stay in the course and will not need to return the new book. Generally bookstores will not accept a return of anything with software if the software has been opened. You will not need to open this CD until you are sure that you intend to stay in the course. Moreover, all the material on the CD is available on the web at http://www.whfreeman.com/bps3e/

* Learning Objectives

* Information about Computer Software, Videotapes, and the CD accompanying the text

Department Curriculum Committee: Mary Parker, chair.

• Mary Parker

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